Highlight of Summer? Hole in the Wall!
By Katherine Gustafson
September 10, 2009
Tonic.com
On August 21, a group of 21 Iraqi children with serious medical conditions arrived in a whole new world, plucked out of a war zone and plunked down in a summer camp in Italy. Their goal? To just be kids for the first time in their lives.
Paul Newman’s vision of giving sick kids a chance to be just plain kids has, it turns out, the ability to touch distant horizons. This summer’s experience at Dynamo cut across the strata of illness, trauma, culture and religion to offer a feeling of joy and a promise of possibility.
“If you bring people together around children, all barriers break down,” Forrester noted. “The children will know there’s hope out there.” … more »
